The Vine Resources Podcast Show

We managed to get some time with Iain Chalmers, MD of the Holst Group where we got to find out more about his business working with companies using the McQuaig Psychometric System as part of their candidate behavioural assessments.  They use this to help companies benchmark a role internally, recruit to the requirements of a role, develop people based on their strengths and retain employees.

I got the chance to spend time with Mark Lam, the CIO of Openreach at his London HQ. Mark shares with us here career journey from his early days, including the dot-com bubble, his time as head of IT at Carphone Warehouse and his current role as CIO of Openreach running the UK's largest fixed-line access network.  Mark shares with his challenges at Openreach, their drive for a more diverse workforce particular within their field engineering division as well as the companies future plans.

What a treat! Gerry Crispin has been in the recruitment industry for over 50 years and knows a thing or two about candidate experience.  We got to speak to Gerry from New York about his career and about CareerXroads which he founded in 1995. CareerXroads is a premium, peer-to-peer community of talent leaders that share unconditionally what keeps them up at night and what they are doing about it now. He also helped to launch TalentBoard which is to oversee the candidate experience awards. This 'open source' movement is to define, measure and honour the firms who are committed to treating candidates as partners in the hiring process.  In this episode, Gerry talks to David Lawrence about what it means to companies and brands to provide great candidate experience. We love his passion for the industry and you will too so we hope you enjoy listening to this one.

Caroline Fjellner is the CEO and founder of employee engagement solution provider &Frankly.

With her background in innovation of all sorts and sizes, from new design concepts for heavy trucks to disruptive brand positioning in sleepy categories, everything Caroline does is driven by a desire to understand consumers' fundamental drivers and barriers.

&Frankly is all about people.

We talked to Caroline about employee engagement in the workplace and the challenges, mistakes and successes that have gotten her to where she is today

As well as being one of the leading telecoms companies globally, Vodafone are known for their commitment to women, both within Vodafone and around the world.

Not only does Vodafone plan to bring mobile technology to an additional 50 -million women by 2025, but they recently launched the world’s largest recruitment programme for women on career breaks.

We talked to Catalina Schveninger (Global Head of Resourcing) and Maria Ursu (HR Business Partner) about their female diversity initiatives as well as the challenges and opportunities for women in technology.